Trade Portal

Misys Trade Portal is a unique integrated e-business solution offering importers and exporters a full-featured console to seamlessly connect to their banks in order to complete their international trade transactions while simultaneously accessing a wide range of features to follow-up with these activities. Misys Trade Portal provides state-of-the-art technology and capitalises on the leading expertise of banks for to ensure successful trade transactions.

Misys Trade Portal provides all parties with true internet-enabled features for the online management of both traditional and open account-based transactions. Corporate customers access a comprehensive customised web-based console to process and review their transactions. They can submit business requests and also browse through analysis or information pertaining to their industries. The innovative browser-based approach is also beneficial to the bank and its trade services, commodities and energy, or international guarantees teams: a dedicated personalised web-based front end is available to their back-office users, administrators and sales team members to review and process their customers' requests.

The solution is available with a packaged interface with Misys TI Plus but also offer a stand-alone mode as well as deep integration capabilities with any trade finance back-office system and third-party applications.

Overview
Technical Specifications
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Case Studies

A multi-entity system
Misys Trade Portal provides a true multi-entity architecture on both customers' and banks' sides. The system can be easily configured to handle large international corporates or major bank groups as well as smaller entities with fewer branches or individual operations.

Open account business
Misys Trade Portal includes open account modules that fully complement the traditional trade instruments already supported. The solution provides full automation of purchase orders and invoices handling for buyers and sellers in the context of open account-based transactions, eliminating re-keying and thus improving discrepancy rates, while allowing banks to offer advanced value-add financial supply chain services.
Misys Trade Portal was also the first trade services solution to win the SWIFTReady Trade Services Utility (TSU) label when the service came into existence in 2007 and was then accredited again in 2008 and 2009.

In-house or hosted
In addition to the model where the solution is deployed in the bank’s infrastructure, Misys Trade Portal is also available as a white-labelled hosted solution, where it is maintained by Misys in an enterprise-class data centre. Banks accessing the hosted solution are provided with the same robust functionality and features as the installed version, but without the operating costs associated with it.

Misys Trade Portal for Multi-Bank
With many corporates operating with multiple banking relationships insisting on a single sign on and a single view of all their trade transactions, Misys Trade Portal is also available as a complete Multi-Bank solution which benefits both those companies that need consolidated access to multiple banks; and banks that require financial supply chain solutions to meet their clients’ needs.

Misys Solutions Director, Transaction Banking, Olivier Berthier discusses how Misys Trade Portal for Multi-Bank can help develop corporate-to-bank relationships in his article for the Summer 2009 edition of the BAFT newsletter. Download his article here.

Misys Trade Portal is built on a pure Java platform following the Java version 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) specifications. It is therefore portable across many different middleware application server environments such as IBM WebSphere or BEA WebLogic application servers. It enjoys a similar portability across hardware platforms and operating systems since Java support is available on all the major Unix platforms and Intel-based servers running Windows or Linux.

By utilising the Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) interface, Misys Trade Portal can also support various relational database management systems for its data-store.

Please click the links below for associated downloads:

Misys Trade Portal - Overview

Misys Trade Portal for Multi-Bank Factsheet

Open Account and TSU - Factsheet

Supply Chain on SWIFT - issue 1

The Convergence of Cash and Trade - GTR Magazine article about bringing together cash management and trade finance to help corporate customers gain greater control of their working capital.

Please click the links below for associated downloads:

Carrefour & BNP Paribas case study

Spar Nord case study